A minimalist xaringan theme based on Northern Illinois University's branding. There are two flavors:

1. A light theme (niu.css and niu-fonts.css) suitable for viewing on the web and small in-person presentations
2. A dark theme (niudark.css and niudark-fonts.css) suitable for projecting on large screens.

All relevant files can be found in the /assets/ folder. Minimially, niu.css, niu-fonts.css, and NIU_horz_3Clr.png are required to build the light (default) theme.

• A distribution of R - If you're here, I think that's a given. But just in case, grab the latest version here.
• RStudio IDE - xaringan uses RMarkdown and knitr so RStudio is pretty much required.
• xaringan - either from CRAN or the development version from Github.

install.packages(xaringan)

or

devtools::install_github('yihui/xaringan')

Include the following information in the YAML preamble to your presentation.

Light theme:

output:
  xaringan::moon_reader:
    lib_dir: libs
    css: [default, "assets/niu.css", "assets/niu-fonts.css"]

Dark theme:

output:
  xaringan::moon_reader:
    lib_dir: libs
    css: [default, "assets/niudark.css", "assets/niudark-fonts.css"]

There are far more options that can be found in the example presentations here for the light theme and here for the dark theme.

Big shoutout to Garth Tarr's sydney_xaringan for the inspiration (which appears loosely based on the hygge.css template in xaringan). Much of the boilerplate display/testing slides are from Garth. Many thanks.